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Silver medal, then.
The most moving episode of DS9?
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Silver medal, then.
Hard to choose but The Visitor is probably the most moving.
I would also mention the end episode What You Leave Behind. It's really sad to see the good gang break up and go separate ways. Fortunately, all I have to do to change the mood is to grab the first DVD disc of season 1, put it in the DVD player and watch Emissary again as a new start of my personal DS9 relaunch.
Whispers is also worth mentioning here but an even more moving episode is Hard Time when O'Brien suffers from a memory of have killed his cellmate and actually thinks of comitting suicide because of all that.
Tora Ziyal being killed off in ther episode Sacrifice of Angels and both Dukat and Garak mourning her is also very moving. Poor Garak! Ziyal really loved him!
I would also mention the end episode What You Leave Behind. It's really sad to see the good gang break up and go separate ways. Fortunately, all I have to do to change the mood is to grab the first DVD disc of season 1, put it in the DVD player and watch Emissary again as a new start of my personal DS9 relaunch.
Whispers is also worth mentioning here but an even more moving episode is Hard Time when O'Brien suffers from a memory of have killed his cellmate and actually thinks of comitting suicide because of all that.
Tora Ziyal being killed off in ther episode Sacrifice of Angels and both Dukat and Garak mourning her is also very moving. Poor Garak! Ziyal really loved him!
Far Beyond the Stars.
From the cops on the street up to the unseen magazine publisher, those assholes are as evil as Cardassians.
I watched Duet last night.
The most fascinating Cardassians are the file clerk and the tailor.
Too bad magazine publishers in 1958 were generally men... they could have had the publisher played by Louise "Big Nurse" Fletcher.
Obviously not an original answer, but mine is "The Visitor", by a mile. I may never have seen it without crying! The only question is: is it a single tear, or hysterical weeping, or some spot on the spectrum in between? But there will always be tears. Sometimes I think I've beat it because I don't cry in a spot I usually do, then I unexpectedly cry at some completely different place for the first time. Gets me every time!
Meanwhile, "What You Leave Behind" and "Duet" are tied for 2nd.
Meanwhile, "What You Leave Behind" and "Duet" are tied for 2nd.
I could see her as the ER triage nurse at a "whites only" hospital refusing to treat Cirroc after he'd been beat up.
IMO: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume" (S-5, EP-16)
-It was like a metaphor, that you were accused of being fake and getting expelled from school,
and then it was proven you cheat on your tests and spent too much time on research.
--And then after all that, still having to go to school again the next day, and not getting the
benefit that being expelled from school would've offered.
-It was like a metaphor, that you were accused of being fake and getting expelled from school,
and then it was proven you cheat on your tests and spent too much time on research.
--And then after all that, still having to go to school again the next day, and not getting the
benefit that being expelled from school would've offered.
I like that one as well. We see a side of Odo that we rarely do elsewhere.
One that really affected me recently was In The Cards. It's one of the only windows we've gotten into how a moneyless society would actually work, from a practical perspective. Jake and Nog try using latinum at first to but the baseball card, but they get outbid so they have to rely on mutual exchange of favors for multiple people on the station to get what they want. In the end, everyone is happier for their efforts. Everyone got something they wanted, and no money needed to change hands. It gave me hope for a post-capitalist society.
I'm only echoing the consensus here but it has to be The Visitor for me, an emotionally engaging and poignant episode with a wonderful performance from Tony Todd.
Other contenders will have to be, Far Beyond the Stars, Avery Brooks truly knocks it out of the park, and a well-constructed episode unflinchingly broaching the topic of racism.
It's only a Paper Moon is another one.
Other contenders will have to be, Far Beyond the Stars, Avery Brooks truly knocks it out of the park, and a well-constructed episode unflinchingly broaching the topic of racism.
It's only a Paper Moon is another one.
I rewatched "Far Beyond the Stars" and it's easy to relate to, on top of everything else. It's very well crafted and acted.
For something less directly relatable, "For The Uniform" still hits a home run in what Sisko will do to stop Eddington and his ilk from poisoning any more entire planets. TNG wouldn't be so bold. Neither would VOY. In spirit, Kirk has otherwise been the closest, but he usually nags the computer to death in a trope-creating fashion or tells Anon to confront the real issues instead of playing tacky video games. DS9 really was the boldest when it came to detail.
For something less directly relatable, "For The Uniform" still hits a home run in what Sisko will do to stop Eddington and his ilk from poisoning any more entire planets. TNG wouldn't be so bold. Neither would VOY. In spirit, Kirk has otherwise been the closest, but he usually nags the computer to death in a trope-creating fashion or tells Anon to confront the real issues instead of playing tacky video games. DS9 really was the boldest when it came to detail.
Definitely an unsung episode, which can stand with the best of anything that follows it during DS9's run. (Even TNG's season 1 classics still feel like they're from a different show.)
I completely disagree on that statement, Picard is Picard, Riker is Riker, Data is Data, Troi is Troi, Geordie is Geordie, Worf is Worf, Wesley is Wesley, and Crusher is Crusher, the Enterprise is the same and the stories told are Star Trek; their backstories and their character backgrounds were established. Just to prove how in-different it was "All Good Things..." had the cast reprise their appearance and their stages of the characters in the 1st season it was seamless; they even had good ol' Miles and he fit right in like a glove. Because you didn't like the 1st season doesn't make what you said true.
Not as much the characters but the overall feel or tone of the show. DS9 felt more consistent in that regard. But ATG did a great job at blending and stitching in everything so perfectly. Perception is still up to the individual.
P.S. You've not read many of my season 1 story reviews in the TNG forum. I clearly don't hate the season, and I've defended aspects of it more than others, though I will nitpick aspects about various episodes that stunk. I know in a recent post I mentioned "try season 2 first then circle back" but that involves a different level of context. Either which way, your belief isn't entirely true either. Or, in fewer words, "Fascinating" might be the ideal one-word response to your reply's final sentence.
My apologies. I remember that and you're right you have and your thoughts on season 1 were fair and worth reading.
As for DS9, maybe, comparing the 1st 3 seasons to the 4th - 7th season the characters felt dramatically different to me, but I'm very bias about this so I can't view it objectively.
Again. Sorry about the comment, sometimes I'm on a tangent in another thread and at times spills over on this one. Sorry about that.
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